Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] slub: Delay freezing of CPU partial slabs

[Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>]

On 2023/10/18 14:34, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 12:45 AM <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> wrote:
>> 4. Testing
>> ==========
>> We just did some simple testing on a server with 128 CPUs (2 nodes) to
>> compare performance for now.
>>
>>  - perf bench sched messaging -g 5 -t -l 100000
>>    baseline     RFC
>>    7.042s       6.966s
>>    7.022s       7.045s
>>    7.054s       6.985s
>>
>>  - stress-ng --rawpkt 128 --rawpkt-ops 100000000
>>    baseline     RFC
>>    2.42s        2.15s
>>    2.45s        2.16s
>>    2.44s        2.17s
>>
>> It shows above there is about 10% improvement on stress-ng rawpkt
>> testcase, although no much improvement on perf sched bench testcase.
>>
>> Thanks for any comment and code review!
> 
> Hi Chengming, this is the kerneltesting.org test report for your patch series.
> 
> I applied this series on my slab-experimental tree [1] for testing,
> and I observed several kernel panics [2] [3] [4] on kernels without
> CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL.
> 
> To verify that this series caused kernel panics, I tested before and after
> applying it on Vlastimil's slab/for-next and yeah, this series was the cause.
> 
> System is deadlocked on memory and the OOM-killer says there is a
> huge amount of slab memory. So maybe there is a memory leak or it makes
> slab memory grow unboundedly?

Thanks for the testing!

I can reproduce the OOM locally without CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL.

I made a quick fix below (will need to get another better fix). The root
cause is in patch-4, which wrongly put some partial slabs onto the CPU
partial list even without CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL. So these partial slabs
are leaked.

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index d58eaf8447fd..b7ba6c008122 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2339,12 +2339,12 @@ static void *get_partial_node(struct kmem_cache *s, struct kmem_cache_node *n,
                        }
                }

+#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
                remove_partial(n, slab);
                put_cpu_partial(s, slab, 0);
                stat(s, CPU_PARTIAL_NODE);
                partial_slabs++;

-#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
                if (!kmem_cache_has_cpu_partial(s)
                        || partial_slabs > s->cpu_partial_slabs / 2)
                        break;


> 
> [1] https://git.kerneltesting.org/slab-experimental/
> [2] https://lava.kerneltesting.org/scheduler/job/127#bottom
> [3] https://lava.kerneltesting.org/scheduler/job/131#bottom
> [4] https://lava.kerneltesting.org/scheduler/job/134#bottom
> 
>>
>> Chengming Zhou (5):
>>   slub: Introduce on_partial()
>>   slub: Don't manipulate slab list when used by cpu
>>   slub: Optimize deactivate_slab()
>>   slub: Don't freeze slabs for cpu partial
>>   slub: Introduce get_cpu_partial()
>>
>>  mm/slab.h |   2 +-
>>  mm/slub.c | 257 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>>  2 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.40.1
>>